Warning: There are MASSIVE Spider-Man: Far From Home spoilers below!
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Alright, so we knew that Spider-Man: Far From Home was going to deal with the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame.
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But, more importantly, Far From Home was inevitably going to deal with the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Besides Peter dealing with the idea of being the new Iron Man, the two post-credit scenes set up some interesting developments for the MCU and I just have to discuss them.
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In the first post-credits scene, while swinging through Times Square with MJ, a video broadcast starts playing from J. Jonah Jameson from the Daily Bugle.
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This is 100% when every die hard Marvel fan started shrieking.
In case you need a refresher, J.K. Simmons infamously played Jameson in Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man franchise.
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It's a nostalgic twist and the first time the MCU has acknowledged other Spider-Man franchises.
In the post-credits scene, Jameson ends up playing a video broadcast from Mysterio, who falsely says that Spider-Man was behind the attacks in London.
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And, if that wasn't bad enough, Mysterio reveals that Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker!
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As you can imagine, this is a monumental reveal that will have consequences for future movies.
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The moment is also a fitting ending to this era of the MCU, which began with Tony Stark revealing that he was Iron Man.
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As for Jameson's role, he's always been linked to painting Spider-Man as a villain, so his MCU debut makes perfect sense.
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Far From Home director Jon Watts told EW that the idea of J.K. Simmons reprising his role came up fairly early when they started to talk about Spider-Man's identity being revealed.
It remains to be seen if Jameson will be a big part in the inevitable Spider-Man 3, but it's great to know that the the Daily Bugle exists in this universe.
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After this first post-credits scene, Far From Home dropped another huge twist.
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At the very end of the credits, it's revealed that Nick Fury and Maria Hill were actually Talos and his wife Soren during the duration of Far From Home — the real Fury is on vacation.
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If you remember, Talos and Soren are Skrull, who can shape-shift.
While the scene is funny, it now makes me wonder how long Fury has been using Skrulls to impersonate him (and Maria) on Earth.
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Talos does say that he's only been Fury for a few months, but that doesn't mean he hasn't done it before.
And now, this Far From Home post-credits scene makes me question an Infinity War moment between Fury and Maria.
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In Infinity War, when Maria and Fury are dusted she refers to him as "Nick" — in Captain Marvel, Fury revealed that no one calls him Nick, in fact, he knew his boss was Talos because he called him Nicholas.
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Basically, I'm spiraling and wondering at what moments our beloved characters were actually Skrulls.
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So, there you have it! Spider-Man: Far From Home went from being a fun movie to making me question everything I know in about 5 minutes.
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If you need me, I'll be trying to figure out the future of the MCU based on these two scenes until some ~official~ info is released.
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